I request consideration of the petition (§ b in the Orgburo in part). It is necessary to satisfy [it] in a certain measure, since the struggle against illiteracy is a task more important than others.

Lenin

no earlier than August 11, 1920

* The telegram was also signed by the Commissar of Agriculture S. P. Sereda and V. A. Avanesov. —Ed.

Written in August,

First published in 1945

in Lenin Collection XXXV

Printed from the manuscript